Griddle-greaser.



'No. 644,848. Patented Mar. 6, 1900.

F. N. cumz.

GBIDDLE GREASEB.

(Application filed July 1, 1899.)

(Na Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

FRED N. OLINE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK S. OGDEN, OF SAME PLACE, AND .I. O. BELTON, OF WHEATON, ILLINOIS.

GRlDDLE-GREASER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No, 644,848, dated March 6, 1900.

Application filed July 1, 1899. Serial No. 722,524. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRED N. OLINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Griddle-Greasers, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved griddle-greaser, showing the protecting-cap removed. Fig. 2 is a section longitudinally through the handle and transversely across the wick-pocket. Fig. 3 is a face or plan view of the wick-pocket with wick and distributer in position in the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the fluid-distributer.

Thisimplement comprises a wick-pocket A, adapted to contain a coil of suitable absorbent material, which I term a wick B,-

which is preferably in the form of a tape coiled or wrapped around a serpentine strip of metal 0, which I term the distributer, for reasons which will hereinafter appear. To the upper side or back of the pocket A there is attached a handle D, which is hollow and has its cavity opening through the back or top of the pocket into the cavity of the latter. The handle is preferably slightly tapering and at the upper end is closed by a removable stopper E.

F is a cap or cover for the mouth of the pocket A, designed to be removed when the article is in use and intended to protect the wick from dirt when it is not in use. In use the hollow handle D is supplied with lard or other suitable substance, the same being preferably melted in order to insure its rapid absorption through the wick, although in use the handle of the tool becomes warm in the hand and may be easily heated sufficiently to liquefy the contents of the handle without becoming too warm to hold. Theoil is absorbed by the wick, which soon becomes saturated therewith, so that the operator grasping the tool by the handle can easily and conveniently grease the frying-pan or griddle by In order to hasten the saturation of the eX- 5' 5 posed surface of the wick and also to more rapidly supply the liquid thereto when in constant use, the distributer O is inserted, as described, at the center of thewick and by ,its serpentine form causes distinct channels 66 to be formed, leading from the face of the wick directly back to the mouth of the res ervoir in the handle, so that the oil from the handle passes immediately down along the surface of the distributer to the outer or forward end and so attacks the wick at the exposed surface as promptly or even more promptly than it attacks the back.

I do not limit myself to the particular form of distributor, although the serpentine strip 70 shown is a very satisfactory and cheap device for the purpose. Instead of the inserted stopper at the extremity of the handle any other form of closing device may be employed.

I claim- An implement of the character and for the purpose indicated comprising an integral wick-pocket and a hollow handle whose cavity communicates with that of the pocket; a body of absorbent material lodged in the pocket and protruding from the open mouth thereof, and a distributor consisting of a rigid body embedded in the absorbent body and having superficial recesses extending across it toward the mouth of the wick-pocket to afford channels for conducting the liquid from the reservoir to the exposed surface of the wick.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two witnesses, at Chicago, Illinois, this 13th day of January, 1899.

FRED N. CLINE.

WVitnesses:

OHAs. S. BURTON, J EAN ELLIOTT. 

